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Possessing the secret of joy / producers, Gillian Greenwood, Susan Shaw ; director, Susan Shaw ; [a LWT Production in association with RM Arts].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Interviews.
- Walker, Alice.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Women--Africa--Psychology.
- Women.
- African American women--Psychology.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Biographical television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (51 minutes)
- Other Title:
- South Bank show. Alice Walker
- South Bank show. Alice Walker : Possessing the secret of joy
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker : Possessing the secret of joy
- South Bank show. Possessing the secret of joy
- Place of Publication:
- Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany : Monarda Arts, 1992.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- The African-American author of the internationally-acclaimed book The Color Purple has been a political activist for the civil rights and women's movements since the early 1960s. Interviewed at the time of the publication of her controversial novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker discusses its subject - female genital mutilation. With archive film, dramatised extracts from the book and documentary sequences, this programme confronts a disturbing issue.
- Participant:
- Interviewee: Alice Walker.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed January 18, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1296404696
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